Word: leatherizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Divorced. Richard Roundtree, 31, portrayer of John Shaft, the leather-suited black private eye who has battered his way through three movies and is now the star of a television series; and Mary Jane Roundtree; after ten years of marriage, five years of separation and two children; in Chicago...
Half a world away Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was padding up and down the aisle of his Boeing 707 in black leather slippers, coat off, tie pulled down, harrying his staff between stops with Arabs and Jews. The gaunt Joe Sisco was at Kissinger's side. The two drove themselves across seven countries in six days, from banquet hall to conference table to the Sphinx, and then on through the sky as if sheer nerve and speed could reassemble that divided world. "You must not take the temperature every day," Kissinger cautioned his fellow travelers, who were measuring...
Would you buy a used car-or a political platform-from someone wearing a pin-striped suit, Brooks Brothers' rep tie and wing-tipped shoes? Until recently, a large majority of Americans would have answered yes. The peacock in psychedelic tie, screaming plaid suit and patent-leather pumps was hard-pressed to give away a road map. Suddenly, however, public opinion on men's wear seems to be swinging sharply toward the splashy...
...waiting to take their order. "Good, onion pizza, please, sit down." The women, seated at the table, chat away, about Dick and Robert and Jordan Marsh. One is tall and black, with an expansive Afro hairdo. Her companion is white, with long black hair that sags onto her short leather jacket. They are oblivious to the group that has just walked in the door, to the conversation at the next table, to Frank's acrobatics behind the counter. In a few minutes they have their pizza in hand, wrapped to go, and they walk out into the cool night...
Like any other football team, Tennessee State's Tigers love to score touchdowns. But they are rather ambivalent about kicking field goals and extra points during home games. Reason: the high cost of leather. Every ball lost in the stands costs the small, predominantly black college $26.95 that it can ill afford. Near the end of a recent annihilation of Florida A. & M. (45-0), a student aide on the Tennessee State football staff looked at the mounting margin and worried: "I hope we have enough balls left...